>>5725067Writing and creative endeavors are supposed to be mentally rewarding and healthy at their basic. Ideally, they are good things to do that are good for you. They can be everything from coping mechanisms and independent therapy to being that + combined with an emotional outlet that can meet needs productively. A writer engaging in it from an unhealthy perspective takes all those good things and drops them on their ink stained carpet and wipes their ass with it like a dog scratching buttworms out and says "ohhh noooooo", thence falling prey to their own misaligned expectations. Writing stops being worth it when it stops being all or only half of the good things it can be, and the disease of passion provides no succor to the lustful, the greeding, or the gifted, because passion isn't a provider. You are.
It recalls to me that Asimov's interactions with his own audience were what created genuinely insightful changes in his Robot series of short stories and others as he advanced them over the years. One of the things that stuck with him most strongly, according to an interview, was how a reader told him "Just because you wrote it doesn't mean you get to decide what it means or how I see it," paraphrased. And he thought that was so interesting he wrote multiple booksworth about it. And that's kinda the thing, the feedback dependent agency, that only happens with a person directly engaging their audience.
Being able to give someone a character to play on top of little things like that? That's really fun. A webnovel cannot replace that flavor. Not without significant format alterations to the point of no longer really being just a webnovel.
Thus even as I am there, I am still here; for I am here in soul, and so thus I am here forever.
cuz /qst/ is fuckin' GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY